Hard to say but there is a lot of vertical growth on that tree, I would try to get some outward growing limbs on it. Train it to grow out not up.first picture is my suspected Arkansas Black. Second picture is the 8th tree I picked up over the week and planted for of which today some of the ones I picked up today or actually closer to an inch and a half in caliper does anybody have any comments about the Arkansas black suspicion does that look like a typical Arkansas black.?
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Hey Jhoss. How large are those wicksons and when do they drop. They look great.
Hey Jhoss. How large are those wicksons and when do they drop. They look great.
Wickson’s are about ping-pong ball size. I have no knowledge on drop as I either eat them or scrat for cider...I use ‘em! I can tell you they are tougher to pick than a good ripe regular apple that pops off in you hand. This give me thi impression they will hang on a long time.
They've got a great apple taste. More tart than sweet but not over-puckering. The knocks on this apple I would say are the skin and the texture. It doesn't bug me a whole lot but the skin is a rough almost russett thick type. My girls knock it heavily for this - almost inedible because of it for them. Then the texture is hard, tough and dense, dense, dense and heavy but not exactly juicy. It does cleave off as you bite into it but its chewy chewy. This is a review of them right off the tree - I'll bet in a month or two they soften up. Peeled and sliced they are a crunchy zingy good apple treat...maybe a pie apple? So, I like them, not my goto grab but cool and different. Oh - and the apples growing on the tree - all mahogany purplee black-red...a picturesque sight. So, some plusses, some knocks - I like 'em.
My crimson crisp gets CAR pretty good similar to the gold rush beside itRe: Post #148 - I finally tasted CrimsonCrisp last week. Bought a peck and took 'em home. They are also a GoldRush-lite... great apple and growing a tree in the backyard....
I think you are right on both topics...Black Oxford as a Cider apple, Fedco lists them for cider though I really don't know what they mean...hard or sweet-juice.., I will have to check sugar and look up acid and tannin content.Aren't they supposed to be a good cider Apple? Maybe I'm thinking Kingston Black?